Michael van der Ham Graduates Saint Martins with a Bang

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The predictions were correct, my shadowing buddy Michael van der Ham was one of the stars of the Central Saint Martins MA show. He opened the show, which featured 17 designers, and won the L'Oreal Professional Fashion Design Award, along with Oden Wilson. Michael was inspired by Warhol's fashion design efforts where he dismantled designer dresses and took the different segments and pieced them into new dresses. Michael took this inspiration and decided to piece together fashion of different eras, so one dress could have shape from the 20's, material from the 60's, and a sleeve from the 70's. After the show, he mentioned wanting to create a collection that was relevant. But what exactly did he mean by that? "I think there's so much fashion, you know, it's a bit saturated. I think its kind of funny to put five dresses into one. There's so much fashion it never ends and runways never stop because there's always a fashion week it seems, so it's like there are no seasons anymore because its all continuous. It's kind of a joke that only I get." It's a fabulous joke, because it's one that has won him an immense amount of praise and recognition.